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	Hannover (region, Germany) - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Hannover was successively an electorate and a kingdom of Germany and later a province of Prussia.
		Hannover was established as a kingdom in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna.
		In 1803 the electorate was occupied by the French, and Napoleon incorporated part of it into the new kingdom of Westphalia in 1807.
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	Universität Hannover: Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
		The marriage of Ernst August, Elector of Hannover, to Sophie, the granddaughter of King James I of England, brought the succession of the English throne to Georg Ludwig (King George I) in 1714.
		In the war of 1866, Hannover was occupied by the Prussians and annexed to Prussia.
		The University of Hannover awards student places to foreign applicants whose course of study at the university is an integral part of either an international exchange programme or of a special training programme agreed with course of study for a limited period of time without a final examination.
	www.gartenbau.uni-hannover.de /fb/ects/ects1.shtml (3173 words)

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	King's German Legion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Napoleon imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1803 the Kurfürstentum Hannover (Electorate of Hannover) was disbanded and its army dissolved.
		Many former Hannoverian officers and soldiers fled the French occupation to Britain, as King George III of the United Kingdom was also Elector of Hannover.
		After the victory at Waterloo, the Electorate of Hannover was re-founded as Kingdom of Hannover.
	www.t131.greatnet.de /encyclopedia/k/ki/king_s_german_legion.html (304 words)

	MSN Encarta - Leibniz
		Beginning in 1666, the year in which he was awarded a doctorate in law, he served Johann Philipp von Schönborn, archbishop elector of Mainz, in a variety of legal, political, and diplomatic capacities.
		In 1676 he was appointed librarian and privy councillor at the court of Hannover.
		For the 40 years until his death, he served Ernest Augustus, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, later elector of Hannover, and George Louis, elector of Hannover, later George I, king of Great Britain and Ireland.
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	Hanover (state) - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1692, the duke received the additional title of elector (see prince-elector), and was thenceforth normally known as the "Elector of Hanover." In 1714, the Hanoverian electors became kings of Great Britain (see House of Hanover).
		In 1803, the Electorate was occupied by the French, who ruled over it in one guise or another for the next ten years.
		In 1813, the Electorate was restored, and in October of 1814 it became the Kingdom of Hanover at the Congress of Vienna, in order to make George III equal to the upstart King of Württemberg in German affairs.
	www.free-definition.com /Elector-of-Hannover.html (316 words)

	the Holy Roman Empire
		Electors appeared in person, entrusted their vote to another elector, or more often sent an electoral embassy, even if they were present (as the king of Bohemia in 1657 and 1690, or the elector of Mainz in 1741).
		The electors proceeded on horseback from the city hall to the cathedral, and convened in the electoral chapel, and swore to choose the worthiest man, and to accept the majority vote.
		In 1741 the electors decided to exclude the ambassadors of Karl's daughter Maria Theresia, queen of Bohemia, not because she was a woman but because of the pending dispute over that crown (the elector of Bavaria had just seized Prague and had himself crowned king of Bohemia in December 1741).
	www.heraldica.org /topics/national/hre.htm (11238 words)

	Hannover (city)
		From 1386 it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and from 1692 capital of the electorate of Hannover (created a kingdom in 1815).
		His son was forced by the Prussian prime minister Bismarck to abdicate in 1866, and Hannover became a Prussian province.
		In 1946 Hannover was merged with Brunswick and Oldenburg to form the Land of Lower Saxony.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004198.html (242 words)

	Herrenhausen, Niedersachsen
		In the 17th century the principality of Hannover fell to a branch of the House of Braunschweig and Lüneburg.
		In 1692 the principality became the Electorate of Braunschweig and Lüneburg.
		In 1714, the Elector Georg of Hannover, son of Princess Sophia, became King George I of England.
	www.centralia.ctc.edu /~vfreund/GermanResources/Germanslides/Germany/Niedersachsen/Herrenhausen/Herrenhausen.html (308 words)

	history
		In 1812 Hannover was the part of the Confederation of the Rhine known as Westphalia.
		Hannover, the home of the Brenneckes, was put under rule of the King of England.
		At the top level, when Hannover was annexed by the Prussians in 1866, the King of Prussia became the Head of the former Church of Hannover.
	www.brenneckes.homestead.com /history.html (5578 words)

	Archives Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George I was Britain's first German king and also Elector of Hannover, a province to which the city of Celle also belonged.
		This fascinating alliance between Great Britain and Hannover lasted a total of 132 years and was determined through Europe's oldest dynasty, the "Welfen." Famous ancestors, such as Henry the Lion, belonged to this line.
		Like so many inventors before and after him, Hoppenstedt approached kings and electors to ask for financial patronage so that he could realize his idea (an early form of sponsorship) or simply for a reward for his work or to be granted privilege to protect his invention.
	www.archivesmaritimes.com /allemagne.htm/memory/caspar.htm (599 words)

	THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The German Electors, however, chose the first Habsburg Emperors because most of their hereditary territories were outside the formal boundaries of the Empire itself.
		The Diet included the Electors, the rulers of the larger Duchies such as Wurtemberg, and Oldenburg, the smaller Saxon states and Anhalt, and a larger number of Sovereign Princes and Sovereign Counts (these latter sat in Circles of Counts which each had votes of their own in the Diet).
		The Archbishopric of Salzburg became a lay Electorate in 1803, and was given to the former Grand Duke of Tuscany (as compensation for the loss of his Italian states) until exchanged with Wurzburg in 1805.
	www.chivalricorders.org /nobility/holyroman (2298 words)

	The Bailey Family (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was married to Friedrich V, Elector Of PALATINE in 1612 in London, England.
		George I (Georg Ludwig) King Of ENGLAND [ELECTOR OF HANNOVER] was born on 28 Mar 1660 in Hanover, Prussia.
		Parents: Ernst Augustus I Prince Of BRUNSWICK [ELECTOR OF HANNOVER] and Sofie Countess Palatine Of SIMMERN [ELECTRESS OF HANOVER].
	bailey.aros.net /jsbailey/d74.htm (4383 words)

	Hannover (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Electress Sophie of Hannover (1630-1714) was one of the most remarkable...
		Hannover er hovedstaden i den tyske staten Niedersachsen.
		Hannover er også et tysk fyrstehus som nedstammet fra Heinrich der Löwe, og som regjerte Storbritannia og Irland fra Georg I, som besteg tronen i 1714, til dronning Victoria, som døde i 1901.
	encyklopedi.com /Hannover (302 words)

	HANOVER (Ger. Hannover) - Online Information article about HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)
		Lauenburg, which was left without a ruler in that year; and after a struggle with John George III., elector of Saxony, and other rivals, he was invested with the duchy by the emperor See also:
		This agitation, however, soon died away; and in 1708 George Louis, the son and successor of Ernest Augustus, was recognized as an elector by the imperial diet.
		rescue; in 1758 Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, cleared the electorate of the invader; and Hanover suffered no loss of territory at the peace of 1763.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HAN_HEG/HANOVER_Ger_Hannover_.html (4122 words)

	Sophia, Electress of Hanover
		Twelfth child of Frederick V, elector palatine of the Rhine and king of Bohemia, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England.
		She married the elector of Hannover in 1658.
		Widowed in 1698, she was recognized in the succession to the English throne in 1701, and when Queen Anne died without issue in 1714, her son George I founded the Hanoverian dynasty.
	www.screaming.net /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007241.html (136 words)

	George Frideric Handel
		Handel left Italy for a position as court composer and conductor in Hannover, Germany, where he arrived in the spring of 1710.
		After returning to Hannover he was granted permission for a second short trip to London, from which, however, he never returned.
		Handel was forced to face his truancy when in 1714 the elector at Hannover, his former employer, became King George I of England.
	www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/george_frideric_handel.htm (2124 words)

	Hanover County, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located in the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
		Created in 1720 from the area of New Kent County called St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County was named after King George I of England, who was Elector of Hannover in Germany when he came to the throne.
		Hanover was the birthplace and home of Patrick Henry, and the Hanover Courthouse was the site of the Parson's Cause case, in which attorney Henry argued against taxes levied on preachers by the King.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanover_County,_Virginia (533 words)

	Holy Roman Empire 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The religious wars of the sixteenth century and the Thirty Years war in the early seventeenth led to a further diminution of Imperial power, even though the Habsburgs' rule in Bohemia was consolidated.
		The number of Electors was increased to eight with the elevation of the Wittelsbach Duchy of Bavaria to the status of Electorate (giving that family two Electors, the other being the Elector Palatine) in 1648, following the changes wrought by the Thirty Years war.
		In 1692 a fourth was added in the person of the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Hannover, who became Elector of Hannover (united with the British crown in 1714).
	www.almanachdegotha.com /newpage10.htm (341 words)

	to jump is a chance to fly .. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the State Stud of Lower Saxony was founded in 1735 in northern Germany, it soon became the developing ground of a new horse breed.
		The King of England and Elector or Hannover, King George II, founded the stud in the Kingdom of Hannover.
		He knew that horses were valuable and useful, and he wanted to produce strong stallions to be bred to local mares to produce hardy work horses ready for farm work.
	www.jumping-horse.net /indepthhano.shtml (331 words)

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		In the spring and summer of 1707 and 1708 he \ntraveled to Rome, enjoying the patronage of both the \nnobility and the clergy, and in the late spring of 1707 he \nmade an additional short trip to Naples.
		After\nreturning to Hannover he was granted permission for a\nsecond, short trip to London, from which, however, he\nnever returned.
		Handel was forced to face his truancy \nwhen in 1714 the elector at Hannover, his former \nemployer, beca EXTD=me King George I of England.
	www.freedb.org /freedb/classical/6c116a18 (644 words)

	Buells and their Relations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ernest Augustus 1st Elector of Hannover was born in 1629.
		Parents: Ernest Augustus 1st Elector of Hannover and Sophia of Palatinate.
		Ernst Elector of Saxony was born in 1441.
	www.familyorigins.com /users/b/u/e/Matthew-J-Buell/FAMO2-0001/d45.htm (684 words)

	Welfen 7
		Duke Johann Friedrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg zu Hannover (1665-79), Herzberg 25.4.1625, +Augsburg 28.12.1679; m.Hannover/Paris 30.11.1668 Pfgfn Benedikte Henriette von Simmern (14.3.1652 +12.8.1730)
		Charlotte, *Hannover 8.3.1671, +Modena 29.9.1710; m.Modena 11.2.1696 Reinaldo III d'Este, Duke of Modena (+26.10.1737)
		Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hannover (1698-1727) and Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, succeeded his cousin Queen Anne as GEORGE I, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1.8.1714-1727), Leineschloss, Osnabrück 28.5.1660, +nr Osnabrück 11.6.1727; m.Celle 21.11.1682 (separated 1694) Dss Sophia Dorothea of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (5.9.1666 +2.11.1726)
	genealogy.euweb.cz /welf/welf7.html (1382 words)

	King's German Legion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)) Napoleon imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1803 the Kurfürstentum (A port city in northwestern Germany) Hannover (Electorate of Hannover) was disbanded and its army dissolved.
		The same year, Major (Click link for more info and facts about Colin Halkett) Colin Halkett and Colonel von der Decken were issued warrants to raise a corps of (Click link for more info and facts about light infantry) light infantry, to be named "The King's German Regiment".
		After the victory at Waterloo, the Electorate of Hannover was re-founded as (Click link for more info and facts about Kingdom of Hannover) Kingdom of Hannover.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ki/Kings_German_Legion.htm (331 words)

	Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tho she was very handsome, the Prince who was extremely amorous, had several mistresses, which provocation and his absence in the army of the Confederates possibly disposed the Princess to indulge some degree of coquetry.
		These remaining letters were preserved in Hannover until 1866, not in the Royal Archives, but among the Guelph domestic papers at Herrenhausen.
		When the late king of Hannover, George V, was wrongfully despoiled of his kingdom by Prussia, and forced to live in exile, he rightly took his family papers with him into Austria.
	home.clara.net /john.veale/lecture.htm (5010 words)

	The Bailey Family (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ernst Augustus I Prince Of BRUNSWICK [ELECTOR OF HANNOVER] was born on 20 Nov 1629 in Herzberg, Hannover, Prussia.
		She was married to George I (Georg Ludwig) King Of ENGLAND [ELECTOR OF HANNOVER] on 21 Nov 1682 in Celle, Hanover, Germany.
		She was divorced from George I (Georg Ludwig) King Of ENGLAND [ELECTOR OF HANNOVER].
	bailey.aros.net /jsbailey/d44.htm (698 words)

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